Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah…aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert.

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

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Lot 160

(HAGADAH).

Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah…aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert.

ONE OF 350 NUMBERED SETS. Edited by Bruno Italiener. Facsimile Edition. Two volumes, text (including 17 black-and-white plates) and plates. Original half-roan gilt, over patterned boards, rubbed, 4to and folio Yaari 2064; Mayer 1147

Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersmann 1927-28

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

Important scholarly treatment of “an exceptionally fine facsimile of one of the most remarkable illuminated Haggadahs.” A. Marx, The Darmstadt Haggadah, in: Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (1944) pp.256-70.